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- verb Present participle of
droll .
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Examples
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But more sadly still I hail the host himself, and desire to know of him if literature was not somehow a gayer science in those days, and if his peculiar kind of drolling had not rather more heart in it then.
Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878
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Mr. Arbuton thought this rather a coarse kind of drolling, and strengthened himself anew in his resolution to avoid those people.
A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878
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And, as to standing up for the American People, just more flag waving crappola drolling out of a Repub mouth when he has nothing to say about anything.
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After hearing Sanford drolling about his love affair and dalliances with others I believe he wants out.
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Many are probably drolling to see if you are a candidate for credit.
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Many are probably drolling to see if you are a candidate for credit.
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But, at 23, I bet I'm not the oldest girl drolling over his ripped body.
TEAM JACOB Jill 2009
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But, at 23, I bet I'm not the oldest girl drolling over his ripped body.
Archive 2009-11-01 Jill 2009
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It was sickening to see pundits drolling at the significance of Obama's win at Iowa.
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To hear my guilt, my folly, my agony, the foibles and weaknesses of my friends — even your heroic exertions, Jeanie, spoken of in the drolling style which is the present tone in fashionable life — Scarce all that I formerly endured is equal to this state of irritation — then it was blows and stabs — now it is pricking to death with needles and pins. —
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